BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

Paper Code: 
GEO 232
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

 

CO1: To learn about the evolution, definition and scope of GIS.

 

CO2: To learn about geographical data products, their types, characteristics and implications.

  

CO3: To know and learn about digital image processing.

 

CO4: To learn about issues in digital representation of geographic data.

 

CO5: To learn about the global positioning system.

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures,

Discussion, Tutorials,

Reading assignments,

Demonstration,

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments,

Effective questions,

Seminar presentation

 

 

 

Class test,

Semester end examinations, Quiz,

Assignments,

Presentation, Individual and

group projects

 

 

18.00

•

Evolution of GIS; Definition and scope of GIS; Components of GIS; Issues and trends

 

in GIS

 

18.00

•

Geographical data products, types and characteristics; Implications of spherical and

 

planar coordinate systems and their transformations in GIS; Georeferencing and implications of Earth’s shape and datum in GIS.

 

18.00
  • Issues in digital representation of geographic data; Raster and Vector models for geographic data representation

 

18.00

•

Remote sensing and GIS integration, GIS project design and planning methodologies;

 

GIS data base management systems; GIS information products; Applications of GIS.

 

18.00
  • Basics of Global Positioning System.

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Adrados, C., Girard, I., Gendner, J., &Janeau, G. (2002). Global Positioning System (GPS) location accuracy due to selective availability removal. C. R. Biologies, 325, 165170.
  • Arvanitis, L., Ramachandran, B., Brackett, D., Rasoul, H., & Du, X. (2000).

Multiresource inventories incorporating GIS, GPS and database management systems: A conceptual model. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 28, 89-100.

  • Ellis, E. A., Nair, P. K. R., Linehan, P. E., Beck, H. W. & Blance, C. A. (2000). A GISbased database management application for agroforestry planning and tree selection. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 27, 41-55.
  • Lillesand, Remote Sensing And Image Interpretation, 5Th , John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
  • Walsh, A. and J. C. Ollenburger, 2000: Essential Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Conceptual Approach. Prentice Hall, pp. 320. ISBN-13: 978-0130193391

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023